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Hello all,

What do I need to do in order to install the latest version of PB on Fedora 17 KDE 32-bit? I have never installed PB on linux before as I am also new to linux.

It's easy, just download pb and run checkinstall.sh in your terminal.


But, as with most things with linux, you should rtfm before asking stupid question already answered 200 times on this very forum >.>

Hmm.. Well, ok. Thank you for your kind remarks I guess. I was asking about Fedora not Ubuntu and KDE not Gnome. I also stated that I was new to Linux. Yes, I searched the forum for answers first to avoid responses from people like yourself. At any rate, thank you for taking the time to make someones day a little brighter.

Poshu wrote:But, as with most things with linux, you should rtfm before asking stupid question already answered 200 times on this very forum >.>

Why this language? Installing Purebasic on Linux is a bit confusing even with the checkinstall thing.

Why this language? Installing Purebasic on Linux is a bit confusing even with the checkinstall thing.

I'm new to linux too (switched last week). Installing PB was as hard as reading the readme file and I guess you should not even dream of programming anything if you can't do that.

I was asking about Fedora not Ubuntu and KDE not Gnome. I also stated that I was new to Linux. Yes, I searched the forum for answers first to avoid responses from people like yourself.

I can't see why aving another desktop manager will change anything: you download the package and install it. Refere to your distro forum instead...
So, yeah you've been searching HARD as I can see, cause it took me at least 1 minute to find it! http://purebasic.fr/english/viewtopic.p ... ra#p360057

Wow! I wish a admin would close this thread. It seems my simple and legitimate question has been turned into a war. Nice! Real nice!!

As this post hasn't been locked and I was installed today Purebasic 5.0 (beta7) on a Fedora Linux 64bits virtualized on Win7 (with VirtualBox), here is a command I've found on an other post (open a terminal, and be admin --> "su") : It has extract all files (write a lot of lines) and open Purebasic IDE (Purebasic is running)
Then I've tested
And quick run works

Hope that will help any other guy who need to do cross-platform apps without learning full linux environnement

Hi,

i also use Fedora 17 32-bit. To use PB, i got to install some dependancies. Open the terminal and enter the following command:
yum -y install gcc libstdc++-devel gtk+devel libgnome-devel libstdc++-static

Maybe i have not taken all things into account, but for my way of programming it works. I installed Purebasic in the /usr/bin/purebasic location. If you want to access the executable from the starter panel at the left side of the Gnome desktop, you have to create the file /usr/share/applications/purebasic.desktop with at least the following text content:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=PureBasic
GenericName=PureBasic
Exec=/usr/bin/purebasic/compilers/purebasic
Terminal=false
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
Icon=/usr/bin/purebasic/logo.png
MimeType=application/x-executable;
Categories=GNOME;GTK;Development;IDE;

Best regards
Uwe